Every artist ....

dips his brush into his soul and

paints his own nature into his art.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. -Pablo Picasso

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Cecil Beaton

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -Albert Einstein

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -Andre Gide

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. -Edmond de Goncourt

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. -Amy Lowell